Friendship With Movies

Friendship isn't always easily described. The Eskimos, they say, have a hundred different words for snow. Unfortunately, the English language isn't quite as innovative, though it has vast opportunities to differentiate meaning. Certainly, Love is one of those opportunities. And so, too, is Friendship.

Instead of different words, however, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.

Friends are special people. We can't pick our family, and we're sorely limited in the number of them at any rate. Society and mores (and often our own conscience) dictate we select a single mate. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends, in a very real sense, reflect the choices we make in life.

Below given is a list of movies, which show how precious, intricate and intimate friendship can be

An Intimate Friendship (2000)

This movie showed how the life of family of very strong friends get disrupted, when two of the friends realize that their love for one another goes beyond the confines of their conventional relationship.

An Officer And A Gentleman (1998)

In this film we see David Keith Loser/loner Zach Mayo enlists in the Navy because he wants to inject a little direction into his wayward life. During his 13-week boot camp, he gets taught a lot of lessons of discipline, friendship and ultimately, love, as he starts off as a son trying to escape his father's past, and ends up as an officer and a gentleman.

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

This is an autobiographical account of a boy's first friendship - and his discovery of the real world. Set in a Catholic boarding school during the German occupation of France, this is the powerful story of Julien Quentin, a sensitive, headstrong 12-year-old boy who befriends the new student in his class. The boy - Jean Bonnet - sees differently than the others. But Julien is intrigued and the two begin a shaky friendship. One day, by accident, Julien learns of a secret that will change the young boys' lives forever.

Beaches (1988)

This movie begins with a thirty-year friendship, when two little girls meet on the beach in Atlantic City. Bette Midler plays a diva not unlike her real-life persona, Barbara Hershey a lawyer stricken with a fatal disease. Have a hanky on hand for when Bette sings Wind Beneath My Wings.

Boys On The Side (1995)

Here's a different kind of road film--the adventurers are women, and no ordinary women at that. Whoopi Goldberg plays a lesbian, Mary-Louise Parker's character has AIDS and Drew Barrymore's, surprise, surprise--is running from her past. In spite of their differences, they form a powerful supportive bond during their entertaining journey.

Brokedown Palace (1999)

Two best friends' dream vacation becomes a nightmare in this movie. Each falls for the same mysterious man, and in one instant their lives are changed forever. In a foreign land, they must prove their innocence before it's too late. A tale of self-discovery and the ultimate sacrifice for a friend.

Circle Of Friends (1994)

A film about the lives, loves and betrayals of three Irish girls, Bennie, Eve and Nan during their freshman year at Trinity College in Dublin.

Clueless (1995)

This zany comedy movie showing self-absorbed, fashion obsessed teens in Southern California. Though jealousy over guys nearly pulls them apart, friendship wins out, as does romance with just the right guy for each girl.

Corrina, Corrina (1994)

Corrina stars Whoopi Goldberg as a maid hired to tend to the daughter of a grieving man (Ray Liotta) whose wife has just died suddenly. Tina Majorino plays the daughter, who is so overwhelmed by the loss of her mother that she stops speaking. After a time both daughter and father bond with the new woman in their lives, a situation complicated by racism in this 1950's setting.

Crimes Of The Heart (1986)

A funny, poignant drama about three southern sisters who are drawn together again after the youngest attempts to murder her abusive husband.

Enchanted April (1991)

A charming tale of four women who find Romance, hope and, ultimately, liberation during a month's holiday in an Italian villa overlooking the sea.

Entre Nous (1983)

This critically acclaimed French drama on her mother's long-lasting friendship with a woman that was so strong, it became threatening to their ineffectual husbands.

First Wives Club (1996)

Middle-aged men should think twice about dumping their wives for younger women--especially if the women take Ivana Trump's advice, "don't get mad, get everything." Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton play friends since college who join forces to get hilarious revenge on their respective exes.

My Best Friends Wedding (1997)

Shy Julianne Potter, who suddenly realises she's in love with her best friend Michael. There's just one catch&he's about to marry someone else. Now she has to win him back, And with just 4 days, the help of resourceful boss and the benefits of an extremely devious mind, Julianne will do anything to get her man.. except tell him the honest truth!

Frat Daze (2000)

Frat Daze is a shocking tell-all feature length movie about friends that possess a burning desire to pledge a glorified fraternity, all inspired by actual events! This movie has been seen and enjoyed by college students all over. Now on home video, everybody (many more students, parents, and curiosity seekers) will get a true and very rare glance into the private world of Fraternity Pledging and Hazing. Secrets Exposed!

Scent Of A Woman (1992)

Hoping to earn some extra money, a relatively underprivileged prep school student agrees to look after a cantankerous, blind, retired lieutenant Colonel during his holiday. Thrown off guard by his charge's bullying style, the student's in for even more surprises when the two take off for a wild weekend in New York City.

Rain Man (1988)

After their father dies, a smooth-talking businessman is reunited with his autistic older brother to whose caretakers his father left a fortune. Needing the money himself, he kidnaps him for a rocky cross-country drive only to discover the void his brother had filled in his empty childhood.

Shot Through The Heart (2000)

A heartrending movie, based on a true story about a pair of best friends in the former Yugoslav nation, who are torn by the inevitable circumstances of war. The bond between the two life long friends illustrates the depth of the friendship, and how emotionally unbearable life is when having to make the choice between best friend and nation.

Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (1995, 2000)

Woody is Andy's favourite toy, an old cowboy doll with a head full of stuffing and a heart of gold. But one fateful birthday sees the arrival of Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger and potential rival for the hallowed position of Favourite Toy. Both movies tell simple, yet powerfully real tales. Expressed with extraordinary care and skill in animation, the films capture the importance and fragility of true friendship with eye-popping visuals, spirited laughs and lovable characters.

Robert Swayze writes on relationship,friendship and inspiration. He brings his long years of experience, as a relationship consultant. He is an active blogger and writes at his blog on inspirational wishes and friendship wishes and greetings

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Review The Dark Crystal

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This movie is rated PG for scary monsters and violence, including the deaths of several sympathetic characters. My recommendation is that parents shouldn't let small children see it. One reviewer here wrote that this movie traumatized him when he was five. It does have some nightmarish imagery. It looks like a kiddie movie because of the puppets, but don't let the puppets fool you, it really is not a kid's movie.

Classic mythic stories have certain elements and structures which set them apart from melodramas or action-adventures; they're journeys filled with mentors, heralds, shape-shifters, shadow-figures, hidden powers and secret knowledge. The Dark Crystal has these and one can arguably label it a modern hero myth. I will do so.

The hero of this myth is Jen, who is to all appearances the last of his race - the Gelflings, elf-like people who once had cities and high culture on Thra, a faraway planet. The rulers of Thra are called the Skeksis, nasty reptilians who are themselves dying out and whose numbers are down to just nine. Jen's family was killed by the Skeksis' minions, the Garthim soldiers. The mirror opposites to the Skeksis are the Mystics, who have been hiding Jen, thus tricking the Skeksis into believing the Gelflings are all dead. In Skeksi-think, this is a good thing, for the Skeksis fear Gelflings. There's a prophecy about a Gelfling destroying Skeksis, so the Skeksis attempted the genocide of the race. They believe they have succeeded, and are unaware of Jen's existence.

And thereby hangs a tale.

Planet Thra is vividly imagined in textured detail; a second viewing reveals things one missed the first time around. There are all sorts of fascinating creatures running around in the corners of the frames, and there's even a live "dessert" that scampers across a Skeksi dinner table as the lizards try to catch it. On Thra, life takes surprising and bizarre forms.

No human appears on the screen, all the characters are puppets. In a few scenes, live actors in costume do duty to show characters at full-length. The Skeksis and Mystics are amazingly complex and sophisticated puppets which each require entire teams of puppeteers to bring to life. The lifelike detail with which these are crafted is truly remarkable. They each have unique wrinkles, crow's-feet and scars, they can frown, smile, laugh, blink, wink, sneer, roll their eyes...they require skillful acting from the puppeteers, and it's here that I must commit my heresy. I'm sorry to have to say that Jim Henson is not the best puppeteer in this movie. In the special features, Henson is shown in a filmed interview in which he said that he wanted to make the characters as lifelike as possible, and that in doing some of his other characters (such as Kermit the Frog) over the years, he'd used actions and mannerisms which were broad and exaggerated, but for Dark Crystal he had to adopt a different style of puppetry which wouldn't look "puppety", to use his word. He failed on that front, in my opinion. There was no time in which Henson's puppetting of Jen didn't make me think of a puppet. By contrast, we do get to see a female Gelfling named Kira, puppetted by Kathryn Mullen. Mullen's portrayal of Kira is quite believable. She imparts mannerisms and attitudes to Kira which make Kira seem very female and real. There's just an ineffable something in a tilt of the head or a hand gesture that "sells" the character, and Mullen gave Kira those subtle qualities. It's interesting that in one of the special features, Mullen says how she had to tell Henson how to make Jen more lifelike. There is also Frank Oz's performance of Aughra, a sort of witch, I suppose one might say, though there's more to her than that. Aughra is one of those personalities one doesn't soon forget. Think of Yoda on a caffeine high and you'll be in the ballpark. Oz gave Aughra both believability of action and motion, and an interesting, mysterious ambivalence - I was never sure which way Aughra would jump.

Myth is the oldest kind of storytelling in the world; the epic myth of Gilgamesh is the oldest known story on Earth. In five thousand years of myth-making since then, we've pretty much covered the variations on the form. As such, The Dark Crystal is nothing new. Joseph Campbell deconstructed the mythic story structure down to its component elements which he called the monomyth, and The Dark Crystal hews closely to the Campbellian monomyth right along with King Arthur, Achilles and Luke Skywalker. So, there's not much here in terms of story that we haven't seen before. Henson and company really put no new spin on the hero's journey, it's all fairly clear and straightforward. The structuring of the story, then, is competent, if just barely so. However, I have a bit of a nit to pick with some of the elements Henson wrote in. There are certain events which telegraph the ending to some extent, so that the end comes as no great surprise. In my view, this is a mistake. I think the ending would have been much stronger with a slight rewrite to keep the ending more of a surprise. Instead of the desired reaction, "Oh! - so THAT'S what this is about!" the reaction is more along the lines of "Yeah, they've been kind of driving toward that." It's too bad. The story would have been better without the telegraphing of the ending, I think. In my opinion, Jim Henson was an undisciplined and self-indulgent director who showed a predilection for things which weakened his stories (I could have screamed at the final thirty seconds of Labyrinth).

The puppets are many and varied. Again, there are all sorts of odd and wonderful creatures in this movie, everywhere you look. Each one of them required a clever new solution to the question "How to we put THAT on screen?!" Most of the things in this movie are what are called practical effects. These are distinguished from special effects in that special effects are added in post-production, after the principal photography is complete. Practicals are done on-set, with actual tangible objects in front of the camera. I would estimate the ratio of practical effects to special effects in this movie at maybe 20:1, but that's just my perception, I didn't make a systematic count. They used special effects only when there was no other way to show things.

This too is too bad in one case. There are creatures called landstriders which look for all the world like men on stilts because that's just what they are. I never for a moment bought into the landstriders. That was a case where special effects were called for. Henson should have called Ray Harryhausen out of retirement and used Dynamation stop-motion effects for the landstriders.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, once spoke about the Egyptian pyramids and said, "Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard."

This for me is the wonderful thing about The Dark Crystal; it's old-school fantasy filmmaking, with clever, hard-working humans meeting ten thousand problems with ten thousand innovative solutions to put a complex, impossible world on screen. No such cleverness is required today, processing power will do. Today, these problems would all have one answer: CGI. Skeksis - CGI. Garthim - CGI. Mystics, Gelflings, and weird mounds of dirt that eat unsuspecting passersby...CGI, CGI, CGI. If it doesn't look right, re-render it until it does.

A story is more than just a story, it's an artifact of human ingenuity and a child of the soul. The Dark Crystal is a monument to virtuosity, it's a stroke in our signature - a sharp, inventive stroke.

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The Dark Crystal Overview

THE DARK CRYSTAL is a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever! Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), THE DARK CRYSTAL brilliantly weaves a timeless myth of Good and Evil! In another time, THE DARK CRYSTAL- a source of Balance and Truth in the Universe- was shattered, dividing the world into two factions: the wicked Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics. Now, as the convergence of the three suns approaches, the Crystal must be healed, or darkness will reign forevermore! It's up to Jen -the last of his race- to fulfill the prophecy that a Gelfling will return the missing shard to the Crystal and destroy the Skeksis' evil Empire. But will young Jen's courage be any match for the unknown dangers that await him?

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Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen. Recalling the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small elfin being) who will topple their empire, so in their reign of terror they have exterminated the race, or so they think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe. Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, marionettes, giant bodysuits, and mechanical constructions are mixed seamlessly in a fantasy world of towering castles, simple huts, dank caves, a giant clockwork observatory, and a magnificent landscape that seem to have leaped off the pages of a storybook. Muppet fans will recognize many of the voice actors--a few characters sound awfully close to familiar comic creations--but otherwise it's a completely alien world made familiar by a mythic quest that resonates through stories over the ages. --Sean Axmaker

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Star Wars meets Muppets - D. J. Nardi - Washington, DC
I had mixed feelings about The Dark Crystal. The puppet animation holds up surprisingly well even in the age of digital animation. Some of the scenes are beautiful, such as the heroes rowing on the lake with papyrus. The movements are generally smooth and not jerky. It shows Jim Henson's genius with puppets. My problem with the movie is with the human side - the script and voice acting. Sometimes, it seems the scriptwriters got lazy and just copied scenes from Star Wars, including characters suspiciously similar to the Ewoks and Yoda. Some of the voices also seem a bit weak and lighty for their characters. Finally, the movie seems to want to be an epic, and has the makings of it, but is just too short at 1.5 hours to really be of epic proportions. I'd recommend The Dark Crystalfor kids who like fantasy/epics like Star Wars, but I don't know if it will appeal much beyond that audience.






Much better than on VHS - Thom Carey - Yonkers, NY United States
I have always liked this movie and I had a copy on VHS. It was dark and detail-less. I purchased this Blu-Ray copy to replace my original and it is much better. Colors are truer, more details are visible and, although it is set on a dark canvas, it was much easier to see everything even in the darkest frames. Of course, the sound was incredible and much easier to hear even the slightest sound.



Stop editing the classics! - M. Higareda - Chicago & DC
Am I the only one who noticed that they've edited this film? Just so we're clear, I LOVE this movie; I'm pretty obsessive about it. I've seen it 8 times in the theater (6 when it first came out) and own every single edition on every media platform, including PSP and iTunes. So when I finally sat down to watch the Blu-Ray edition, i noticed pretty quickly that they've changed the dialogue; Jen suddenly speaks a line in Aughra's laboratory that I've never heard.

Between this and the edited editions of Erik The Viking and The Last Unicorn, I'm wondering how much of my childhood is left intact. Shame on whoever decided to alter history. It wasn't necessary and this is not what I paid for.

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Review Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

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As an action flick and thriller, it succeeds very well and right from the moment you press "play". Message-wise it is also interesting. Here we have a CIA guy who's been in the country 20 years and feels it would be in the country's best interest to instill what was left of the Iraqi militia in the new govt. There is logic in his reasoning as we witness a chaotic and war-torn Iraq in constant background. Then we have a solder (Damon) running around from site to site on a mission to find WMD and not finding any. A tip from a local guy who later becomes his personal translator leads him to the whereabouts of the head of the Iraqi army. When the soldier (Damon) comes up with a little black book listing the whereabouts of that former Iraqi general, he is faced with a decision about whom to give it to - the CIA guy or his own chain of command. As he seems to be getting the run around from his own command on these bogus WMD sites, he decides to hand it over to the CIA guy. Working with him Damon goes about looking to find and bring back the general. We feel Damon's frustration with not being able to find WMD and also his suspicion in whether or not there ever were any. Background being what it is we can also sympathize with his siding with the CIA guy. What gives this movie it's counterperspective though is Damon's Iraqi translator. HE doesn't want to see this general put into the new govt. When that stance is revealed, we suddenly question Damon's original and seemingly sensable quest - the Iraqi translator hates the general.

It's an interesting movie that makes you wonder about truth and fiction regarding the war. Not that the movie is the first thing that ever made anybody wonder about that. It's going to get under some people's skin because it takes true subject matter and mixes it with a fictious story - but again it'll have you wondering just how much of it is fiction. For example, I'd like to know if there was any truth in the so-called "Jordan talks" where according to the movie, the general told them there were no WMD but then it was reported back to Washington that according to same general - there were. In the beginning of the movie the soldiers are being led on their wild goose chase for WMD by instructions supposedly having been left by the general. Later we find out from the general himself that those things were never said. This being one of the special reasons Damon's chain of command wants him dead. Again, there are a lot of tidbits like this that help form the basis of the movie and whether or not these events have been culled from fact or fancy, you don't know. You know some of it's true, because they certainly didn't find WMD with that as justification for invasion basically and you know that troops are still there now. So, how much of this movie is fact and fiction will play with your mind a little. If it is a propaganda film, then it is a clever propaganda film. Either way though, it did entertain this reviewer.

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Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Overview

Academy Award® nominees Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) reteam in this action-packed thriller. Damon stars as Roy Miller, a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region. Also starring Academy Award® nominees Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan, Green Zone is “one hell of a thriller” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Specifications

Matt Damon reteams with his Bourne Supremacy director to create a thriller grounded in contemporary politics: the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) travels across war-torn Iraq, pursuing the intelligence he's been given, but every site indicated comes up empty of WMDs. Investigating the source of the intelligence, he finds himself caught between CIA agent Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson, 28 Days Later) and politician Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine) over the identity of "Magellan," the supposed source. As Miller tracks down an Iraqi general, he ends up further and further afield, facing danger from all sides. It's hard to say which is the greater accomplishment--that Green Zone manages to turn a still-volatile political issue into a propulsive action movie, or that it manages to depict Iraqi people as individuals with a wide range of responses to what's happened to their country. Damon's performance is low-key but effective as Miller tries to maintain some semblance of moral clarity in a circumstance that muddies everything. Also featuring Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) as a compromised journalist and Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner) as an Iraqi civilian who gets dragged into far more than he expected. --Bret Fetzer

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Customer Reviews

Ugh, nothing but a liberal rant - Jim M - MA United States
Don't bother with this one. Very disappointed, I am a big fan of Damon, but not this movie.



Great action movie set in Iraq. - Dr.Blu - Asia
I really enjoyed the Bourne trilogy with Matt Damon directed by Paul Greengrass. I had read a lot of mixed reviews about how GREEN ZONE was not true to military standards & the filming was too much hand held filming giving you a bit of motion sickness. On the strength of the Bourne movies I bought the Blu Ray. I found the movie to be good in terms of Blu Ray quality but not excellent due to the hand held filming method & low light filming.
I found the movie itself to be very enjoyable and quite believable in regards to the storyline & political games Washington plays. Did Washington fabricate the WMD story? Maybe they did, maybe they did not........ but this slant is one possible truth that we probably will never learn. I did not see any anti-American or Anti-Military flavor to the movie. They just raise the possibility that some high placed people wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq with or without WMDs. It reflects the fact that military men & politicians blindly follow orders from higher up and do as they are told. Some men however question the orders they receive and look for the real underlying truth .

This movie is fiction based loosely on real events. I was not looking for a true to life documentary ........but just good escape entertainment.
Very entertaining film...... if you liked the Bourne movies you will likely enjoy GREEN ZONE.



Political with good action - Lewis R. Wygand - Florida
Although this Matt Damon movie is about the WMD we didnt find, that I believe were there and moved a while before 2003. It makes President Bush's claim and all of the other countries claims look wrong. I understand where Matt is comming from. I know his view and his politics. Though I do not agree with Matt I have to give him credit for being involved with such a good action flick. That is why I bought it ,for the action and it fits the bill for me



Great Movie - Liberty -
Paul Greengrass has done it again. The film is fast paced with a story line that is original and captivating.

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Review The Pacific (HBO Miniseries) [Blu-ray]

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When I talked to a 1st and 4th Marine Division vet, the reason combat accounts are often vague became very clear to me: "At Saipan, we did a FOUR day assault, which was... the most..." - as he trailed off, I could see his mind discarding a succession of words, and his eyes welled with tears as each attempt took him further back to places he didn't want to go - "... INTENSE... experience". His relief at finally finding that single word - finally free to pull away from the nightmares and resume his story - communicated volumes more to me than any mere adjective.

Very few units (never mind individuals) survived the entire Pacific war intact, and those who did can rarely afford to tell us much about it. Thus, in lieu of a single narrative, the producers of "The Pacific" instead pieced together three stories which, taken together, span the experience of the 1st Marine Division throughout World War Two. Leckie and Basilone's accounts cover Guadalcanal, Gloucester and leave in Australia while Sledge's account describes Peleliu and Okinawa, with flashes from Basilone describing life stateside and the landing at Iwo Jima.

Several negative early reviews suggest to me that understanding the brilliance of this miniseries requires patience. Indeed, upon a first viewing, "The Pacific" may appear muddled and disjointed as it forcibly juxtaposes three very different story lines at contradictory moments of dramatic inertia. First time viewers may believe the characters to be woefully underdeveloped, as most scenes appear to read as, "Some random guy in a helmet tells us this and that". These "guys in a helmet" are not only hard to identify in their combat gear, but also answer to a bewildering variety of names, nicknames, ranks and even rank slang. However, as those who've come to admire the once nameless likes of Hoobler and Shifty from "Band of Brothers" can attest, none of these helmeted figures are as anonymous as they seem, and as viewers go back and review these once random snippets they will discover a wonderfully rich tapestry of personalities that teaches us how the barbarism of war affected these people and their relationships to each other.

No one demonstrates this growth better than Joe Mazzello ("Timmmy" from Jurassic Park), who's slight frame evolves Eugene Sledge from a kindly, quiet kid to a bitterly angry vet. James B. Dale may lack the confrontational "bad boy" edge that Robert Leckie's character seems to call for, but his powerful innate decency radiates a layered and humane interpretation that's endlessly watchable. The inner life of John Basilone is not as well known, leaving actor Jon Seda little choice but to play him as a somewhat generic hero for fear of disrespecting a Medal of Honor winner by ascribing motivations that may appear less than courageous. However, Seda is an excellent ensemble actor, most notably developing wonderful romantic chemistry with Annie Parisse in the calm before the storm of Iwo Jima. This actress is just one of the many outstanding co-stars who create memorable sub-plots as they effortlessly perform the period dialog that seems to elude just about every other WWII production.

The music is also unusual and daring. Hans Zimmer's New Age sensibilities construct a distinctly Japanese dissonance of bells that quietly envelopes the fury of battle with an unsettling form of Zen that never competes with or interrupts the urgency of combat - quite unlike the standard pounding action score or screeching horror effects that seek to heighten violence in other films. Zimmer also proves he's perfectly capable of writing more conventional title music that evokes a gushingly American sense of honor without ever falling back on snare drum cliches. His title music retains the "Plaisir d'Amour" quote (sung by nuns in an Ardennes convent) and will occasionally replay "Band of Brothers" in its entirety for those listening carefully to background music in certain dialogs.

There are, of course, nitpicks, which are inevitable in a project of such massive scope: Leckie's romance central to Part 3 never ignites, American mortars seem to be more accurate that baseballs (even on the first shot), shell-shocked Japanese on the verge of starvation are somehow more energetic and cleanly dressed than Marines (or even Okinawan civilians) and the hasty exposition to Part 1 is quite awkward (yes, it's true that that the nation was gloomy, but it's difficult to imagine ANYONE - especially Chesty Puller - assuming the Japanese were on the verge of world conquest with their campaigns only 3 weeks underway!) With that said, for every little thing "The Pacific" might get wrong, there is SO much more it gets right that there is little doubt that this series is now the definitive recreation of the Pacific conflict.

The latter episodes of "The Pacific" are saturated with intense action and contain some of the most disturbing scenes ever put in a war film, once again reminding me of that conversation with the veteran: "These are things that no human being can possibly deal with. The only thing you can do is 'wall it out'. Guys that couldn't wall it out - officers who were trained to cope by keeping things organized or artists who tried to cope by expressing themselves - these people simply couldn't handle it". Even this man's tremendous skills, inherited from a lifetime in the backwoods, were of no comfort. As a member of an elite recon unit, the Japanese would deliberately let his unit pass then ambush the main body behind him. The number of times that he literally walked *through* the gunsights of hundreds of enemies - each CHOOSING to spare his life - was only one of an endless list of profoundly disturbing things he had to "wall out" just to survive another day... not to mention another year.

To quote the series:
"You can't dwell on it. You can't dwell on any of it".

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The Pacific (HBO Miniseries) [Blu-ray] Overview

The Pacific is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain firests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day. The viewer will be immersed in combat through the intimate perspective of this diverse, relatable group of men pushed to the limit in battle both physically and psychologically against a relentless enemy unlike any encountered before.

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Customer Reviews

A disgrace - Mr. T. J. Denman - London, UK
Everything about this series stinks. The script is wretched, the drama is non-existent, the history execrable (what veterans in Australia must make of its treatment, or rather non-treatment, of their part in the campaign is unimaginable). For a devasting critique of the series, see Clive James in the Times Literary Supplement for 8 July 2010.



Putrid - Maxtone Witherball -
Band of Brothers was propaganda masquerading as history, but at least it was well-executed and entertaining propaganda masquerading as history.

The Pacific's flaws in conception and construction are far too numerous and deep to catalog. Suffice it to say that the few minutes of commentary from veterans and actual war footage which precede the dramatized part of each episode are infinitely more interesting and informative than anything which follows. In other words, the stagecraft is a huge letdown from even a peek at real soldiers and soldiering.

Not to mention, a solid third of the miniseries--at minimum--doesn't even take place in combat zones, but ranges from covering at length the home lives of characters in patrician Alabama, to reenacting at length a tepid romance between a Medal of Honor winner and a cook. In fact, the entire third episode--after the show's spent under two hours on Guadalcanal--follows soldiers on leave in Australia. And the finale is set almost exclusively in the United States. It's not as if the war against Japan was so dry or thin as to warrant or require plumping up with such filler.

I freely admit, and I'm happy to report that The Pacific does deliver a few moments of exhilarating drama. But these are so few and far between that they can't redeem what is otherwise an utterly worthless production. If it's a gripping account of the war in the Pacific you want to watch, you'll do worlds better with Ken Burns' The War, one of the best-made and most compelling documentaries I've ever seen.



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Tom Hanks provides an ominous VoiceOver at the beginning of each episode of The Pacific, calmly informing us of the horrors the episode we were about to see would bring. For me, it was a somewhat scary experience, because I knew that what I was hearing was nothing more than a summary. And then the episode spiraled into the powerful theme song featuring a powerful orchestral score and charcoal drawings of soldiers in battle coming to life, scared amidst the hell of war. The DVD release of the Pacific bears my highest recommendation simply because the show is unrelenting in it's depiction of a very unrelenting Pacific theatre of WWII. James Badge Dale turns in one of the finest performances I have ever seen on television alongside Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge and the unforgettable, milestone psychopathic performance of Remi Malik as "Snaffu." While Steven Speilberg does not step behind the camera for a single episode the miniseries echoes the spirit of Saving Private Ryan. It is a masterpiece and carries my highest recommendation.

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Save Money by Renting Than Going Out to the Movies

Author: Eshwarya Patel

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During times of bread-and-butter uncertainty, abounding association are aggravating to save money decidedly by acid aback on entertainment.

Entertainment is simple for humans to cut aback on because it is a non-essential account during our days. As a active acquainted being, we charge to absorb food. We charge to absorb money for lodging. And for a lot of of us, our cars are capital for accepting to plan and accepting to the grocery store.

But one does not accept to absolutely do abroad with entertainment. For example, the archetypal ancestors of four would absorb about sixty dollars at the cine theaters. Approximately ten dollars apiece for access additional about twenty dollars in refreshments and candy.

The archetypal ancestors may go to the cine theaters twenty times in a year. This comes out to a annual account of twelve hundred dollars.

If one were to alter that action with a added wholesome ancestors acquaintance such as renting movies, again you would absorb about $100 for twenty movies in a year. The accumulation are able-bodied over a thousand dollars by artlessly blockage at home and renting.

There are a lot of advantages to renting abreast from extenuative money. First, you can allocution as abundant as you wish during the movie. It is a fun ancestors acquaintance to be able to altercate the cine while you are watching it. You can be adequate at your own abode and abeyance it if you charge to go to the restroom. You can eat and alcohol your own aliment while at the movies.

With all these benefits, abounding families are resorting to renting than traveling out to the movies.

When one is renting movies, they will have to rent older movies that many may not have heard of. So we suggest all to take a look at the movie ratings at IMDB and EnglishComedyMovies.com.

Just because a movie is older does not necessarily make it any worse than a movie that is currently out in the theaters. In fact, by renting, one can assure his or herself of getting only the best movies according to the ratings.

By watching a movie at the theaters, it is very common to watch a movie that you do not enjoy.

The Secret Behind The Hollywood Blockbuster Movies

Author: Victor Epand

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Blockbuster movies are those, which are actual accepted or acknowledged in agreement of production. It even works for films, which are fabricated on actual low budget, but eventually accomplish and beat the apprehension of the blur of the accurate genre. For example, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Rugrats Movie, The Blair Witch Project, Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon to name a few.

The aeon from 1975 to 1985 was a aeon of Blockbuster hits and above publicity attack with new technologies and appropriate effects. Jaw (1975) by Steven Spielberg is a accurate archetype of new blazon of filmmaking. George Jucas Star Wars (1977) was a mega hit, which acclimated all the elements of acceptable and avant-garde elements. It was aswell an important appearance of the American blur history.

Hollywood Blockbusters about agency the address of the film. It is not the three-act blazon of anatomy that they wish to see. This does not at all beggarly that a anemic adventure can accomplish a way. One of the a lot of important techniques that makes a Hollywood blur hit is the bifold clue line. That means, it has a adventure band and an activity line, which afresh simplified gives a claimed adventure and a case to be solved. A appearance band is area we see a appearance developing or growing. Whereas, a case or an activity band is something the artifice develops into a complete story.

Blockbusters usually are annular about stories, which accept a affair of top concept. The simplest and the deride aphorism for a blockbuster is, it should accept stakes or consequences. It is the consequence, which has a lot of captivation of the protagonist. So is the case with Hollywood movies too. We can see such technicalities in the films like The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the like.

One abstruse of Hollywood Blockbuster movies is that it uses Linux to aftermath their movies. The three affidavit for using this operating system, added than Windows or Mackintosh is that, it is faster, cheaper and better. Even the big account assembly houses, like Disney Pixar or Sony to actualize their beheld aftereffect or animation, they use Linux based operating system. The all time studio, Rhythm and Hues that brought out Scooby Doo was affected up by the Linux system. Added Blockbuster Movies like, The Matrix, Titanic, Gladiator, Superman Returns, Shrek, Men in Black, Hollow Man are a few to name which created by Linux software, such as Maya, RAYZ and Shake.

The Hollywood blockbuster movies began its adventure from the actual antecedent aeon of the Hollywood blur industry. The ambush for authoritative blockbuster movies is hidden abysmal in the conception of acceptable plan forth with allegory the accumulation psychology. Though, frequently abounding admiral and producers acknowledge that there is no harder and actuality rules for authoritative such movies. The aftereffect for art works is absolutely unpredictable. But, the acceptable plan allotment acceptable accumulation a lot of of the time. The huge annal of films like Titanic, Jurassic Park is the absolute archetype of Hollywood blockbuster movies.

Watch Movies Online

The movie industry is one of the most booming industries worldwide. This is because movies seem to be one of the most popular choices of people globally when it comes to entertainment. It is hard to find a person who does not like to watch movies. There are a number of genres available these days suiting viewers of different mentalities and ages. Movies can be watched at theatres and on television. One can also buy or rent movie disks to play them in players or computers. However websites that let you watch movies online are becoming increasingly popular. This is because you can get a lot of content out there in the World Wide Web and practically any movie that has ever been produced. You also have the option of watching them whenever you want. You cannot get so much content at an offline store of disks even though disks let you watch movies at the time of your preference and neither is it feasible to build such a huge personal collection.

To watch movies online there are some things that you need besides a good computer with enough hard drive space and memory and a high speed internet connection. However these are the things which are absolutely indispensable in order to watch movies online smoothly because movies tend to get stuck when viewed from computers low on performance and over slow internet connection. You will need at least a broadband connection as dial up connections are just not enough and your movies will either not load or will not play properly. It is always better to have high resolution flat monitors for the best viewing experience. Today's movies have a lot of high quality effects and they might be completely lost on low resolution screens while non-flat screens will give the movies a distorted or otherwise unsatisfactory appearance. Among the flat screens a TFT monitor is always better than liquid crystal display monitors as they have wider viewing angles and are better for viewing by a group of people. They are also glare free. What you need next are good audio and video drivers and speakers. You can opt for 5.1 surround speakers and those reproducing dolby sound for great audio experience.

You need some basic software loaded onto your computer too to watch movies online. You need some video playing software like Adobe Flash Player, Divx, Windows Media Player and Video Lan or Vlc. It is advisable to add the streaming media players Quick Time and Real Player. Streaming media is media that is played on a viewer's computer while it is being delivered from the server where the database is stored. Almost all movies that you can view online without downloading on to your computer are streaming media. There are a limited number of sites that stream in two formats that can be played exclusively with Quick Time and Real Media Player. Plus these two players have their own networks, movies from which can be played only on them.

Now the only thing left for you to do is to find a good site that streams media for free. There are certain sites that carry out surreptitious activities like data spying and spamming by infecting viewers' computers with spyware and malware. Do some Google search and take a look at online forums and social networking sites to find out which sites are safe.

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How To Appreciate The Greatness Of Bad Movies So You Never Have Problems Choosing A Movie To Rent Ever Again!

Author: William Connor

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Who hasn't been to the rental store, online or in the flesh, and best up just about every acceptable cine appellation and said, "I accept apparent that one already," or "That doesn't attending so absorbing to me"? We all have. What can you do in those situations? That is easy! Instead of acrimonious a acceptable movie, aces the affliction cine you can find!

Change your apprehension for the admired appearance of the movie. It is simple to do and it will added than bifold the affection films accessible to you in the store! I allegorize t to acceptable a vegetarian for a abbreviate aeon of time. If you accept anytime done that for claimed or medical reasons, you apperceive that if you aboriginal airing into a grocery abundance area you are acclimated to affairs bacon, hamburger, and chicken, al of a sudden the abundance takes on an absolutely new banal of articles that you never noticed before. This is absolutely the same.

What a lot of humans attending for in a acceptable cine is a quiet examination bearings that allows for "suspension of disbelief" through accomplished acting, high-dollar appropriate effects, and well-written scripts that move the eyewitness somehow during the presentation. Able-bodied bandy those ethics out the window and embrace their opposites and you may acquisition that you accept an absolutely new way of examination movies you originally abhorred because they were so horrid.

Perhaps a guideline analogue of what constitutes a bad cine is in order. There are four types of moves out there. 1) Movies that are able-bodied funded, artsy, and well-executed that appeal the accepted examination and affectionate methods we accept all developed up using. 2) Movies that don't accept the account or the autograph to cull off getting an art cine or top Hollywood blur but appear abutting abundant that we still adjudicator them with the aforementioned criteria. 3) Movies that try to present a top superior blur using the bare funds they accept accessible to them, but abort miserably. 4) Films that are out to actualize a bad cine acquaintance and advisedly try to simulate anyone declining miserably, but generally try too harder and end up authoritative a blur that is artlessly annoying.

What you wish is amount 3. They are simple to spot! The covers of the video will present the blur actual seriously. You may acquisition accepted Hollywood "one sheet" posters depicted one the foreground or somewhat abstract "cold-war" appearance proclamations in fonts that assume to jump off of the box advertence the abominable capacity of the G or PG rated films you authority in your hands. Some things to attending for are the actors' and director's names. If you admit some of them, are they adolescent or alive during a aeon of low income? If so, you are apparently on the appropriate track. If you haven't heard of any of them, again you a lot of absolutely accept begin one to accede demography home!

Other clues cover bad appropriate furnishings proudly displayed on the alembic and archetypal artifice curve like behemothic monsters, masked wrestler protagonists, and the underdog axis the tables on the admiral that be in a antic bearings of some sort. Bad movies that accommodate untold hours of ball can abatement into abounding categories, so there is consistently something for everyone. Gothic horror, Japanese elastic monster dilemmas, science fiction from the 1950s, arch tales of nurses and flight attendants, belief of abyss affairs in ghettos and all-embracing spies are all adventure types that may able-bodied accommodate an abominable cine artifice that will accumulate you amused all night!

There are few limitations to the ball amount of bad movies, but you accept to be able to acquaintance the bad movies in new ways. Expect that the cine will be so crazily absurd, that comments will be fabricated during the film. For that matter, already you get acclimated to it, the added comments the better. Witty cine admirers can be funnier than the cine itself, sometimes, so embrace that and adore the added voice-overs from the couch!

If you try to accomplish faculty of the cine that you are watching, accord up now! One of the charms of bad movies is that they usually do not accomplish sense. Looking advanced to seeing just how abundant these films do not accomplish faculty is allotment of the fun!

Acting quality, either through the accountability of the administrator or the actors' inabilities to aftermath acceptable portrayals is not to be looked down aloft any more. Instead appetite the poor acting and acquiesce it to addition the ball amount of the film.

Many bad movies may accept been bigger if they had artlessly a college budget. This will abundantly access the ball amount of watching a bad film! Low account appropriate furnishings are the authentication of rotten movies. Sure, we all like to see crisp laser blasts and composition jobs, but it is absolutely a admiration to see how blur makers get by with what they accept accessible to them in a pinch. Scratching the blur to actualize apparitional auras or taping cardboard mache prosthetics assimilate an actor's face can accomplish the cine that abundant added adorable if you appearance it with the actual attitude.

Combinations of these factors actualize the bad movie. Affectionate these elements and all-embracing them with an adapted accepted of ball amount will acquiesce you to appearance a ailing accomplished blur with a new mentality, accouterment a rewarding, aesthetic acquaintance that will enhance your cine examination forever!

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MY FRIEND ABSOLUTLY LOVES THIS MOVIE AND WAS THRILLED WHEN I GAVE IT TO HER. SHE WATCHES IT ALOT AND IT CAME IN GREAT CONDITION. IT GOT TO MY HOUSE PRETTY QUICK TOO.

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Homeward Bound - The Incredible Journey Overview

This thrilling and thoroughly captivating theatrical hit from Disney has become an instant favorite with audiences of all ages. You'll lose your heart to Chance, a fun-loving American bulldog pup; Sassy, a hilarious Himalayan cat who lives up to her name; and Shadow, a wise old golden retriever -- all of whom express themselves with very familiar human voices! The adventure begins when the loving owners of these irresistible pets are forced to leave them in the temporary care of a friend who lives hundreds of miles away. But after several days, the worried animals begin to think their family must be in trouble, so they decide to head for home. On their incredible journey across the ruggedly beautiful Sierras, they encounter unexpected surprises from man, beast, and nature alike. It's an unforgettable story of love, courage, and devotion that will delight and inspire generations to come!

Homeward Bound - The Incredible Journey Specifications

Walt Disney studios had previously adapted Sheila Burnford's classic animal-adventure novel The Incredible Journey in 1963, and the story proves just as durable in this popular 1993 version, in which the heroic trio of animals are given voices provided by Don Ameche, Michael J. Fox, and Sally Field. They don't actually speak (like the clever critters in Babe), but we hear their "voices" as the lost household pets--Shadow the golden retriever, Chance the bulldog, and Sassy the cat--survive a harrowing series of adventures as they struggle to find their way home. Perfect entertainment for kids, this frequently clever movie offers an abundance of wildlife and beautiful location scenery, and the vocal performances by Ameche, Fox, and Field are surprisingly effective. A hit with parents and children alike, the film was followed by a sequel in 1996. --Jeff Shannon

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grandkids - F. Munoz - mexico city mexico
I have been very happy to find these movies on VHS, cause I collected them for my kids, and now they are being used for the grandkids.



To the garbage-can-bound - N. Rivera - Utah
This movie is just plain awful. It should not be rated G. The animals spend most of the time bickering and insulting each other. The humor is mean, inappropriate, and crude, especially for young children. I am sad that Disney is not as wholesome as it could be.






Homeward Bound - Mary L. Yardley - Bloomington, IL
A wonderful movie for the whole family to enjoy together. I showed it to a middle school English class after reading the book, The Incredible Journey.

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